03-19-2009, 10:47 PM
[cool][#0000ff]TubeBabe and I launched from the well covered ramp about 7:30 AM. Air temp 37, water temp 42 inside...43 outside. 14 feet of water in the channel. Shallowest spot on the way out was 10 feet deep. Sure looks good to see all that water again. About another 6 or 7 feet to top it off.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Clear and calm...and chilly enough for gloves in the light breeze. Open water for about 200 yards out from the marina entrance at launch. Moved in later with a west breeze. Saw several flights of honkers and a couple of bald eagles out on the ice.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe caught the first cookie cutter kitty about 8:30. I caught the second and she caught the third. Then, nothing but pop and drop for another hour. I got two more and then she finished our catching with a 21 incher...biggest cat of the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We had to dodge ice chunks going out and coming back. Interesting. Several boats worked down the open channel in the ice and headed for the north dike or the west side. One was jplacquay and another was Michael, Crankem's son. Michael returned a bit later and said the hole with the fish in it, on the west side, had closed up and he had a tough time getting out through the rotten (but thick) ice. We watched for JP, but he did not come in. Either the fishing was good or we will have to send out the Mounties.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Michael was mostly working for walleyes and wipers, with walleye rigs and baits. When he came back to the east side he said he had only a couple of bites but missed both. He finally put the hook in a fish just as we were going inside the marina about 2. It was a whiskery walleye.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw BFTer Lee Rasmussen on the ramp, with a couple of other fishing buddies...with tubes and toons. They had been fishing inside the marina without success.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water temps fluctuated from 42 next to the ice to 47 inside the marina as we returned. Saw lots of shad on sonar but nothing that looked like wipers. The deepest water we could reach with tubes, inside the ice edge, was 17', straight out from the marina. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The remaining ice is really rotten. A couple of days of wind and waves should turn the north dike white.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Clear and calm...and chilly enough for gloves in the light breeze. Open water for about 200 yards out from the marina entrance at launch. Moved in later with a west breeze. Saw several flights of honkers and a couple of bald eagles out on the ice.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe caught the first cookie cutter kitty about 8:30. I caught the second and she caught the third. Then, nothing but pop and drop for another hour. I got two more and then she finished our catching with a 21 incher...biggest cat of the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We had to dodge ice chunks going out and coming back. Interesting. Several boats worked down the open channel in the ice and headed for the north dike or the west side. One was jplacquay and another was Michael, Crankem's son. Michael returned a bit later and said the hole with the fish in it, on the west side, had closed up and he had a tough time getting out through the rotten (but thick) ice. We watched for JP, but he did not come in. Either the fishing was good or we will have to send out the Mounties.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Michael was mostly working for walleyes and wipers, with walleye rigs and baits. When he came back to the east side he said he had only a couple of bites but missed both. He finally put the hook in a fish just as we were going inside the marina about 2. It was a whiskery walleye.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw BFTer Lee Rasmussen on the ramp, with a couple of other fishing buddies...with tubes and toons. They had been fishing inside the marina without success.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water temps fluctuated from 42 next to the ice to 47 inside the marina as we returned. Saw lots of shad on sonar but nothing that looked like wipers. The deepest water we could reach with tubes, inside the ice edge, was 17', straight out from the marina. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The remaining ice is really rotten. A couple of days of wind and waves should turn the north dike white.[/#0000ff]
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